20 July 2006

My first IRL blogger meet-up

I took a step out of the virtual world and into reality today when I had my first real-life blogger meet-up with VenturaMom and her lovely child, The Girl.

I was debating whether to post about this tonight because I am tired and don't know whether I can do it justice. But I know I will be running around like a chicken in the morning and I can't blog at work (terrible, I know!), so I will give you the rundown now.

VenturaMom is lovely and funny and smart and has an almost 3-year-old that is lovely and funny and smart. Interesting how that works. We met down by the beach in a park and hung out and talked and watched as The Girl - who is quite the socialite - made friends with all passers-by.

It turns out that we know a BUNCH of the same people - Ventura is not that small, but it gets real small when you start talking to people.

We share political views (Fox News - bad; kindness, mercy and justice - good), a love of dogs and a hatred for extremely mean skinny women who do their hair and nails to go to they gym. THAT's what I'm talking about.

All in all, a raving success. The Girl learned to play bocce ball from some nice guys in the park, too.

11 comments:

Is bocce more like shuffleboard, or billiards? I suspect its got incomprehensible scoring, too. Somehow,I don't think that was in the conversation, was it?What a brave meet-up! I fear reality the most, after math, and skinny gym women...

I just posted about meeting Becki from Cooking with Whine, and the weekend after BlogHer I'm meeting GingaJoy. That's great that you and VenturaMom have so much in common, and hurray for blogger meet-ups.